Open Office Hebrew Translation

[Itzik Samara <it...@gmail.com>]

i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need
volunteers for this..
please send me info how can i contribute?

Re: Open Office Hebrew Translation

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/13 8:55 PM, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
>> Hey Itzik!
>> This is a total waste of your time.
>> I personally prefer contributing to LibreOffice which is currently 100%,
>> OpenOffice lacks proper Hebrew support, translating the system will allow
>> the developers to keep ignoring the Hebrew issues.
>
> @Yaron, I really don't know what you are trying to do here. If you
> personally prefer to work on LibreOffice it's fine, it's your decision.
> But I think by courtesy and respect to other open source projects you
> shouldn't try to discriminate other projects. It shed really a very bad
> view on you personally your character and indirect on the other project
> that you personally prefer.
>
> We here in the OpenOffice project respect other projects and are fair
> enough to let people/volunteers decide on their own.
>

+1

I'd also draw our attention to #2 on our posted list conduct guidelines:

http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html

-Rob

> @Itzik, welcome at Apache OpenOffice and we appreciate that you are
> interested to help us with the translation into Hebrew. Some other
> people gave you already some further information how to start.
>
> You should keep in mind that OpenOffice is very popular and we have
> since April last year more than 35 million downloads and the number is
> growing quite fast with ~1 million per month. I personally take my
> motivation out if this fact that I spent my time and my energy in such a
> popular project used by millions of users all over the world.
>
> You can help us to improve OpenOffice for Hebrew and can help to make it
> better for all. We need native speaking people that help us to identify
> problems. And of course we need an active translation community because
> we only release languages where we see an active community behind.
>
>
> Juergen
>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Yaron Shahrabani
>>
>> <Hebrew translator>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Itzik Samara
>> <it...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need
>>> volunteers for this..
>>> please send me info how can i contribute?
>>>
>>
>

Re: Open Office Hebrew Translation

[Jürgen Schmidt <jo...@gmail.com>]

On 2/11/13 8:55 PM, Yaron Shahrabani wrote:
> Hey Itzik!
> This is a total waste of your time.
> I personally prefer contributing to LibreOffice which is currently 100%,
> OpenOffice lacks proper Hebrew support, translating the system will allow
> the developers to keep ignoring the Hebrew issues.

@Yaron, I really don't know what you are trying to do here. If you
personally prefer to work on LibreOffice it's fine, it's your decision.
But I think by courtesy and respect to other open source projects you
shouldn't try to discriminate other projects. It shed really a very bad
view on you personally your character and indirect on the other project
that you personally prefer.

We here in the OpenOffice project respect other projects and are fair
enough to let people/volunteers decide on their own.

@Itzik, welcome at Apache OpenOffice and we appreciate that you are
interested to help us with the translation into Hebrew. Some other
people gave you already some further information how to start.

You should keep in mind that OpenOffice is very popular and we have
since April last year more than 35 million downloads and the number is
growing quite fast with ~1 million per month. I personally take my
motivation out if this fact that I spent my time and my energy in such a
popular project used by millions of users all over the world.

You can help us to improve OpenOffice for Hebrew and can help to make it
better for all. We need native speaking people that help us to identify
problems. And of course we need an active translation community because
we only release languages where we see an active community behind.


Juergen

> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Yaron Shahrabani
> 
> <Hebrew translator>
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Itzik Samara
> <it...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need
>> volunteers for this..
>> please send me info how can i contribute?
>>
> 

Re: Open Office Hebrew Translation

[Yaron Shahrabani <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hey Itzik!
This is a total waste of your time.
I personally prefer contributing to LibreOffice which is currently 100%,
OpenOffice lacks proper Hebrew support, translating the system will allow
the developers to keep ignoring the Hebrew issues.

Kind regards,

Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>



On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Itzik Samara
<it...@gmail.com>wrote:

> i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need
> volunteers for this..
> please send me info how can i contribute?
>

Re: Open Office Hebrew Translation

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Itzik Samara
<it...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i would like to translate the Open Office to Hebrew as i heard u need
> volunteers for this..
> please send me info how can i contribute?

Hello Itzik ,

You can read more about the translations process here:

http://openoffice.apache.org/translate.html

Most volunteers prefer to translate the PO files off-line using a tool
like POEdit:   http://www.poedit.net/

The files for Hebrew are here:

http://people.apache.org/~jsc/translation/aoo341_he_po-files.tar.bz2

Shirley and Avichai, cc'ed, are also interested in helping to complete this
translation, so if you are all working on it you should coordinate to
divide up the files.  It will be much faster this way.

Regards,

-Rob